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Reclamation Day, 2102. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, scavenge and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats.

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36 Reviews

5.24

Destructoid

4.00

Brett Makedonski — Nov 29, 2018

There's no sugarcoating it: Fallout 76 comes up short at nearly everything it aims to be. It's not a good role-playing game and it's not a good multiplayer experience. It never really feeds into the gradual RPG power fantasy but it's also inadequate as a survival simulator. In wanting to be so much, Fallout 76 doesn't amount to much at all.

GameSpot

4.00

Edmond Tran — Nov 21, 2018

Bethesda has stated it intends to continue supporting the game for a long time, but at launch, Fallout 76 is a poor experience. There are echoes of the series' admirable qualities, but look past that facade, past the cute Vault Boy animations, past the familiar radio tracks, and you'll find no heart--just an inconsequential wasteland doomed to be nuked over and over again.

Hardcore Gamer

5.00

Chris Shive — Nov 27, 2018

Fallout 76 tried to take the series in a new direction, and while Bethesda has done great things with the franchise in the past, this ultimately feels like a misstep. Fallout has always excelled as a single player experience, so hopefully we can see a proper Fallout 5 in the near future.

COGconnected

3.80

Paul Sullivan — Nov 26, 2018

76 represents a critical misunderstanding about what makes the Fallout franchise special, and sacrifices all those pieces to shoehorn in a half baked and barely functional online system. While I applaud taking a chance on a crazy idea, Fallout 76 would undoubtedly have been a better and more engaging experience as a traditional open world RPG. As it stands, this is a broken, unfun, and repetitive title that I can’t recommend. And that hurts me to say.

EGM Now

6.00

Nick Plessas — Nov 21, 2018

The gun combat, the frame rate, the dated engine, the list goes on. Many of the issues Fallout 76 currently faces could eventually be fixed, which is why this mess is such a pity. The potential is clear, but a reluctance to commit to one direction or another leaves the game in an awkward and broken void.

MMORPG

7.00

Damien Gula — Nov 29, 2018

If that is what you are looking for and you can be gracious as well as honest with where the game is presently at, Fallout 76 is worth checking out. If you are on the fence, I would recommend waiting to see how Bethesda handles updates and patches. That should give you a sense of where the game is at and what kind of attention it will be receiving. Personally, I am loving my experiences in Appalachia. It has been a great point of connection with friends and family.

IGN

5.00

Brandin Tyrrel — Nov 21, 2018

In an effort to do everything, Fallout 76 fails to do any of it well enough to form an identity. Its multiplayer mindset robs its quests of all the moral decisionmaking that makes the series great, and all that’s left is a buggy mess of systemic designs that never seems to work together and regularly contradicts itself. It all culminates in an aggravating endgame that’s more busywork than satisfying heroics. Bethesda missed the mark with Fallout 76, in part because it seems like it could never decide what it was aiming for.

PS Lifestyle

6.00

Dylan Bishop — Nov 21, 2018

I want to love Fallout 76, namely for its addition of co-op play and the representation of a region dear to my heart. I simply can’t. I wouldn’t say the latest Fallout title is abysmal or even bad, just very middling. It removes many of the series’ strong suits and attempts to make up for it by adding in new mechanics or strengthening lesser ones. That move creates interesting situations, but they don’t always pay off for the player.

ZTGD

4.00

Drew Leachman — Dec 04, 2018

Maybe they can turn this game around. Maybe they can fix the bugs, add some actual life into the world, and make it to where playing with friends is more than just a co-op buddy. They did a lot for Elder Scrolls Online, maybe they can do it here, but I’ll be the first to tell you to wait until that happens before taking these country roads home.

Games Radar+

5.00

Zoe Delahunty-Light — Nov 19, 2018

Fallout 76 is like meeting up with an old former friend you haven’t seen in forever. At first you’re ecstatic to see them and hear about everything they’ve been up to, but as the conversation goes on you realise that they haven't changed that much, but you've grown up. A lot. Just like a former friend, Fallout 76 has some new quirks, but they mostly serve to show how out of date the rest of the game is.

Push Square

3.00

Robert Ramsey — Nov 19, 2018

Fallout 76 is a seriously shoddy attempt at trying to cash in on the multiplayer survival market. Fallout with friends is an intriguing concept on paper, but we can't think of many more ways that Bethesda could have screwed it up. Every online aspect of the release is half-baked and poorly implemented, but even as a single player experience, Fallout 76 would fall flat thanks to its archaic design and astoundingly poor world building.

Cheatcc

7.40

Sean Engemann — Nov 20, 2018

Bethesda claims that the Fallout 76 servers will last “forever” and, while it may not take that long to patch bugs and improve the experience, my foray with the launch version has left me with an abundance of bullet points that need attention. My biggest hope is that Bethesda will take our suggestions and criticisms as a call to action to tweak the faulty mechanics and build more features into a game that has a ton of potential.

Video Gamer

4.00

Josh Wise — Nov 19, 2018

Out with the NPCs but in comes a server full of people. Out with V.A.T.S. but in with survival elements. Out with the bugs – no, wait, they can stay. The rest has been jumbled around or replaced with something heavier. How funny that in a game built on cuts and compromise, you wind up wishing for even more to be scrapped. Life was lighter down in the vault.

Angry Joe Show

TSA

3.00

Jason Coles — Nov 16, 2018

Fallout 76 had a lot to say when it was revealed. It was multiplayer, it had the largest world of any Fallout, it was going to be fun. The trouble is that it just doesn’t work, the world is too big and empty, and the quest design as uninspired as it gets. If the only way for a game to be entertaining is by having your friends make jokes about it as you journey together, then it has failed at one of the things that most games should be.

Cubed3

4.00

Drew Hurley — Jan 19, 2019

So utterly disappointing and flawed in every possible way… The first few hours, most of it can be ignored, and occasionally the flaws can be forgotten, but only briefly before they come storming back to the forefront. An awful, boring, empty, pointless experience. There is, however, a glimmer of hope.

Game Reactor

6.00

Kieran Harris — Nov 19, 2018

Some elements struggle to transition well online, West Virginia feels desolate and empty at times, and there's an abundance of bugs plaguing the experience. With some TLC we can see Fallout 76 blossoming into what we initially hoped for. Alas, it's not quite there yet, although it fills us with hope that Bethesda has pledged to support the title right until the very end.

Den of Geek

4.00

Aaron Potter — Nov 23, 2018

Fallout 76 is an odd MMO in that it proves challenging to work out who it’s actually for. If you want an interesting story, you won’t find it. If you want a fun co-op experience with friends, there are more suitable choices. Its nature as an online, ‘living’ game does mean that it has a chance at salvation by way of future updates, but that does little to help satisfy those seeking a stable Fallout right here, right now.

PS Universe

7.00

Garri Bagdasarov — Nov 19, 2018

Fallout 76 is a blast to play with your friends and a fun somber experience on your own. It’s a refreshing take on a franchise that is beloved by many. Is Fallout 76 for everyone? Probably not, but it’s the most fun I’ve ever had playing a Fallout game. And yes, I’ve played them all. It’s got its problems, but hopefully those issues will be resolved quickly. Fallout 76 is a long term project for Bethesda and it can only get better from here.

Gameplanet

5.00

Baz Macdonald — Nov 27, 2018

The multiplayer integration of Fallout 76 opposes the core tenets of the Fallout games at every turn – utterly undermining the core formula. What’s worse, it then fails to justify the multiplayer in any way. Buried beneath the bugs, network issues and multiplayer allowances, it is possible to see what could have been a wonderful single player experience in a fascinating time and location – but one that we will never experience.

PressStartAustralia

6.00

Matthew Zimmari — Nov 29, 2018

It’s these bugs as well as the limitations that the online only portion of the places on the game that need majoring ironing out as the months roll on. For those that love Fallout, there’s easily enough there to persist through these issues, and there’s some really interesting things being done with PvP as well as events, but right now, there’s enough bugs to keep casual players away.